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Last broadcast on Wed, 14 Dec 2011, 13:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
All of this week Outlook is broadcasting from Delhi, marking 100 years since the city became the capital of modern India.
Today, Matthew Bannister meets Binalakshmi Nepram from North-East India.
Now based in Delhi, she has made it her mission to try to curb the violence in her home state Manipur, location of one of the world's longest-running insurgencies where police and the army have been battling separatists for more than 50 years.
Matthew also meets Nagma Ali, who was rescued from domestic slavery and is now a teacher at the Mukti Ashram - an organisation which gives shelter to children in a similar situation.
And Kailash Satyarthi, founder of the Save the Childhood Movement in India, talks about the thousands of children he has rescued.
India capital Delhi in low-key centenary celebrations
he city of Delhi is holding low-key celebrations to mark 100 years as India's capital. It was on 12 December 1911 when George V, then Emperor of India, announced that the capital would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi
Five things you didn't know about Delhi
As Delhi celebrates 100 years as a capital, author Sam Miller supplies a few snippets of fact and trivia about the city that may have escaped you
Audio slideshow: Delhi at 100
Ninety year old Delhi resident, artist and stamp designer CR Pakrashi, talks about the the sights, sounds and many changes in the capital over the decades
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